Benefit of Network Groups

The group concept used in CA Spool is primarily relevant to system performance and system security.

There are several good reasons for using groups:

It is natural and efficient to have logical groups of printers that are shared and related.

Example:

Groups can be created that reflect the organizational roles of different work groups, such as Finance, Marketing, Technical Support, and so on.

If a user in Finance needs to display all the files relevant to finance, all that is necessary now is to request a file display for that group.
Without groups, the request would have to be made to display files for each relevant printer.
Security administration becomes more efficient, since access to resources can be granted at group level.
Users in the group Finance, for example, can be given access to all printers and files belonging to that group by adding a few resource names to that group number. Previously, this would have entailed giving an explicit name for each printer.
Achieves better system performance because printers and files are chained in groups.